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AM Frequency of the Week - 1610 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

This is always a fun frequency to discuss. What can you get on 1610 AM whether at your home location or in your travels?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a very faint CHHA/Toronto with Spanish language programming days and stronger CHHA at night which dominates the frequency here.
 
A very fun frequency indeed. Here in Marysville I get some very weak carriers on 1610 in the day which I've yet to ID any of them.

Nights I get mainly a mix of WQBV569 Union Gap WA (near Yakima) a 10W TIS with WSDOT information, and a NOAA weather station from Eastern Oregon. I have also logged the Caribbean Beacon a couple of times, faintly over the noise // 6090 (which is 3800 miles!!)

I've also gotten the Naval Kitsap TIS, WPKL360 Woodinville WA which was a local TIS, and WPUJ642 Kingston WA (with ferry information). Really would love to hear CHHA here.

-crainbebo
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago. Not a channel where I've ever spent much time hanging out. Sometimes a weak TIS signal or two and/or a weak CHHA. Mostly not much of anything. The splatter from the former semi-local WMCW (1600) is long gone as well.
 
In East Texas near Tyler there's nothing on 1610 during the day. At night, however, I get a long-haul catch from Mexico. XEUACH "Radio Chapingo" in Texcoco (in the state of Mexico) not really far from Mexico City. They run 250 watts non-directional.
 
Here in NEPA, the only logging I had on 1610 for the longest while was a Talking House
on the picturesque 1200 block of Market Street through Pottsville.
It was within ten miles of my QTH, so I'm counting it.

Several months back in the car, us coming home from the Catskills, there was a 1610 station along I-81, south of Wilkes-Barre on the drive. The nearest exit sign was for Nuangola. I took it as far as the Luzerne-Schuykill county line.

As of this minute here, 7:33 PM, there is a gal doing the news in Spanish on 1610. Probably CHHA.

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Anyone here have a credible list of X-Band stations?
 
Topaz Designs.com has a good list of X-Banders on the air - just click on 1610 and above. US and Canada only - there is no XEUACH listed on 1610 - just CJWI and CHHA. No TIS stations either.

-crainbebo
 
Where I am it's CHHA, but with a less than perfect signal day and night likely due to poor local soil conductivity and other engineering characteristics, such as a ground radial system that sits on poorly conductive soil and/or an oddly shaped pattern. At night, signal strength and quality is very poor due to a more nulled pattern and interference from low power TIS stations around upstate New York and northeast Pennsylvania.

The licensing of the station forced a non-legally protected low powered station; CHEV; a community radio station in Markham off the frequency in 2007. As it would turn out, the station would never return to air terrestrially despite a license renewal in 2009.
 
Anyone know the call letters for the Naval Base Kitsap frequency on 1610?
 
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